Belgrave St Ives is a commercial art gallery,[1] specialising in modern British and contemporary art in St Ives, Cornwall, southwest England.[2] It gives emphasis to work produced in Cornwall from the 1930s onwards, when the town of St Ives became an internationally important modernist artistic centre.[3][4][5][6]
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The original gallery opened in 1974 in Motcomb Street, Belgravia, London. It moved to various London locations, including Mayfair, St James's, and Belsize Park[7] until a St Ives sister gallery opened in 1998. In 2010 the St Ives gallery became independent and continues as the sole remaining part of the Belgrave Gallery enterprise.[8] It maintains a programme of exhibitions of work by major artists associated with the St Ives Modern Period,[9] such as Wilhelmina Barns-Graham[10] and Terry Frost,[11] as well as representing those formerly overshadowed in conventional accounts of Modern British art recently gaining greater prominence such as Sven Berlin.[12] Works by other Modern British and contemporary artists are also shown.[13][14] An annual fixture is the St Ives Exhibition, usually in the early summer, which focuses on Modernist art[15] produced by those associated with the town.[16][17][18]
The gallery has published books on the artists Terry Frost,[19] John Milne[20] and Patrick Hayman,[21] as well as to accompany exhibitions of work from Sven Berlin,[22] Terry Frost,[23] and artists at the Camberwell College of Arts.[24]
Modern British and St Ives | Contemporary |
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Wilhelmina Barns-Graham | Virginia Bounds |
Anthony Benjamin | Bob Bourne |
Sven Berlin | John Emanuel |
Sandra Blow | Anthony Frost |
Michael Canney[26][27] | Luke Frost |
Tom Cross | Ffiona Lewis |
Bob Crossley | Jason Lilley |
Terry Frost | Padraig Macmiadhachain |
Patrick Hayman | Felicity Mara[28] |
Patrick Heron | Christopher Marvell[29][30] |
Roger Hilton | Alice Mumford |
Peter Lanyon | Brian Rice |
Ben Nicholson | |
Kate Nicholson | |
Victor Pasmore | |
William Scott | |
Michael Snow | |
Alfred Wallace | |
John Wells | |
Bryan Wynter |